Definition of Actual

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Actual

Involving or comprising action; active.

Existing in act or reality; really acted or acting; in fact; real; -- opposed to potential, possible, virtual, speculative, conceivable, theoretical, or nominal; as, the actual cost of goods; the actual case under discussion.

In action at the time being; now exiting; present; as the actual situation of the country.

Something actually received; real, as distinct from estimated, receipts.

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Actual Quotations

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.
Will Rogers

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.
Sigmund Freud

The Democrats have no actual policy proposals of their own unless constant carping counts as a policy.
Ann Coulter

The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all.
T. S. Eliot

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Oswald Chambers

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.
George Orwell

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Julius Caesar

When an idea exclusively occupies the mind, it is transformed into an actual physical or mental state.
Swami Vivekananda

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

Actual Translations

actual in Afrikaans is effektief
actual in Danish is virkelig
actual in Dutch is werkelijk, effectief, daadwerkelijk
actual in Finnish is todellinen
actual in German is aktuelle, effektiv
actual in Italian is reale, veramente, veramente
actual in Norwegian is virkelig, faktisk
actual in Portuguese is real
actual in Spanish is efectivamente, de veras, real, propiamente
actual in Swedish is verklig

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